No idea, jemimah. Never had this happen before. I'm actually in front of two machines ATM; one running XP and the other running Mint 9. The Fluppy stick and my external hard disc drive are the only things that are mine... so my troubleshooting is limited.

Okay, I rebooted without my save file, renamed my save file so that it would not be recognized as such, and rebooted again...

Boot error

Back to the XP machine to rebuild the boot record... again.

Back to the netbook and rebooted. Created new save file. Rebooted. Put b43.tar.gz into /lib/modules/all-firmware/ and rebooted. Checked /lib/firmware/ directory to see if the firmware was being extracted.... nope.

Used my bcm43xx-firmware.pet to put the extracted firmware into that directory (maybe an earlier -- too early? -- version) and rebooted again.

Pwireless2 still shows zero access points and I'm still getting the 'ifconfig:SIOCSFIFFLAGS : no such file or directory'

Can you try creating a bootable drive using BootFlash on Puppy and see if you still have the same problem creating files?

Use Bootflash to format a blank drive - say no when it asks if you want to install Puppy. Then copy the Fluppy files to the new drive. But don't copy the ldlinux.sys file - leave the one that Bootflash creates untouched.

Try running bootflash, but don't copy anything to the drive afterwards. When you try to boot it, you should get an error about not being able to find linux - but not an error about the drive not being bootable.

Then if that works, don't copy the zip file to the drive - extract the files somewhere else, then copy the files to the flash drive. Make sure to preserve the directory structure.

Also try a different usb drive and see if you get the same results.

Keep an eye on the ldlinux.sys file and make sure it doesn't disappear at any time during the process. This is not a regular file - if it gets moved or overwritten, it breaks.

Tried with both the windows and the linux installer and I can't reproduce it. I wonder what you are doing differently than what I do.

The problem does have something to do with the size of the drive. I just installed Fluppy to an 8GB flash drive and was able to reboot after saving without any problems. But I get the problem with 2 different 512MB drives. Just my luck that I have a stack of 512MB drives that I use for testing Puppies.

Then I broke it by not inputing a requested SSID. What are testers for, right? Pwireless won't show me those access points a second time. I suspect that something is running in the background, but don't know where to look.

Okay, I think I've got it this time. I deleted my save file and started over....

It needs your provided b43.tar.gz in /lib/modules/all-firmware/ and the unzipped b43 directory that contains all the actual firmware in /lib/firmware/.

I believe the /lib/modules/all-firmware/b43.tar.gz is supposed to unzip itself and copy into /lib/firmware/ by itself upon booting, but I'm not taking anything for granted just yet.

With your provided directories placed in those two places, Pwireless2 is giving me 5 different access points to choose from ATM.

Now, let's see if I can break it while trying to connect..... yep. I broke it. Deleted a duplicate profile. Selecting 'Refresh' under Debug tab of Pwireless2... doesn't seem to do anything. wpa-state=INACTIVE Selecting 'Reset Wpa_supplicant' appears to restart eth0 and wlan0, but wpa_state=INACTIVE in Debug tab and no access points appear in the Networks tab. 'Refresh' under Networks tab does nothing.

/lib/modules/all-firmware/b43.tar.gz does not automatically unzip and install /b43 into /lib/firmware/. This must be done manually by the user.

I still can't get wireless access points to return (and there is one 20 feet away), even with the second save file. Something must be running in the background that I can't stop (or auto starting on each subsequent boot).

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